Design Sprint Job Trends

Design Sprints
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Design Sprint skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 629 - 697
Rank change year-on-year - - +228
Permanent jobs citing Design Sprint 15 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.025% - 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% - 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 11 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.71%
75th Percentile £66,875 - £48,750
90th Percentile £69,169 - £49,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 - £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -34.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Design Sprint falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,537 49,891 46,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.05% 89.96% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 28,419 24,819 35,711
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,532 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

Design Sprint
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Design Sprint relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Design Sprint job vacancy trend in the UK

Design Sprint
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Design Sprint.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Design Sprint

Design Sprint
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Sprint over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Design Sprint in the UK

Design Sprint
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Sprint within the UK over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 12 £50,000 - 62
London - 9 £50,000 - 7
UK excluding London - 3 £56,250 - 59
North of England - 2 £56,250 - 14
North West - 2 £56,250 - 6
South West - 1 - - 5
Work from Home - 1 - - 60

Design Sprint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Figma
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.67%) CloudFront
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) npm
2 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Bower
1 1 (6.67%) gulp
1 1 (6.67%) Storybook
1 1 (6.67%) webpack
General
1 7 (46.67%) Law
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Designer
2 8 (53.33%) Service Designer
3 7 (46.67%) Consultant
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Designer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Product Designer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Product Designer
6 1 (6.67%) Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Interaction Designer
6 1 (6.67%) Product Lead
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Interaction Designer
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
6 1 (6.67%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Framer.js
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) Next.js
2 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Animation
3 1 (6.67%) Blog
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.67%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) User Experience
1 13 (86.67%) Workshop Facilitation
2 12 (80.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 12 (80.00%) UX Design
3 11 (73.33%) User Research
4 10 (66.67%) Ideation Sessions
4 10 (66.67%) UX Research
5 9 (60.00%) Agile
5 9 (60.00%) Design Thinking
5 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (60.00%) Service Design
6 8 (53.33%) Scrum
6 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (46.67%) Critical Thinking
7 7 (46.67%) Inclusive Design
7 7 (46.67%) User Stories
8 3 (20.00%) Line Management
8 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
8 3 (20.00%) Usability Testing
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (73.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) WCAG
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Guidewire
1 2 (13.33%) Pega
1 2 (13.33%) Sitecore
2 1 (6.67%) YouTube